RESOURCES
BOOKS FOR PARENTS
RECOMMENDED READING FOR PARENTS
Based on years of experience in the classroom and as parents and grandparents, the teachers and staff recommend the following books for our families. If you read a book, please let us know what you think! We are always interested in partnering with our families to discuss child rearing.
You can purchase a book through your preferred vendor; however, if you purchase a book through Amazon (by clicking on the title below), Redeemer Day School receives a small portion of the sale, which will go toward school and classroom supplies for our children. Thank you and happy reading!
List of books is in alphabetical order by the author’s last name
Praying the Scriptures for Your Children: Discover How to Pray God’s Purpose for Their Lives
By Jodie Berndt
Parenting the Wholehearted Child: Captivating Your Child’s Heart with God’s Extravagant Grace
By Jeannie Cunnion
Bringing Up Boys
By James Dobson
Bringing Up Girls: Practical Advice and Encouragement for Those Shaping the Next Generation of Women
By James Dobson
Parenting with Scripture: A Topical Guide for Teachable Moments
By Kara G. Durbin
Raising Respectful Children in a Disrespectful World
By Jill Rigby
Raising Unselfish Children in a Self-Absorbed World
By Jill Rigby
Making the “Terrible” Twos Terrific
By John Rosemond
Parenting by The Book: Biblical Wisdom for Raising Your Child
By John Rosemond
Shepherding a Child’s Heart
By Tedd Tripp
Shepherding a Child’s Heart: Parent’s Handbook
By Tedd Tripp
Everyday Talk: Talking Freely and Naturally about God with Your Children
By John Younts
BOOKS FOR CHILDREN
RECOMMENDED READING FOR CHILDREN
Daily reading to children is encouraged and brings a world of imagination and wonder to life! Our teachers and staff have years of reading to little ones and have favorite books – ones that they love and ones that their children, grandchildren and students have loved. Below is a list of the some of their favorite books.
If you do not currently have one of these books and would like to buy it for your child, we encourage you to purchase it through our website (by clicking on the book title) as a part of Redeemer Day School’s Amazon Affiliate Program. When books are purchased through our web site as a part of this program, the school receives a portion of the purchase back, which is used by Redeemer Day School to purchase school supplies and related needs. Happy reading!
A Child’s Garden of Verses
By Robert Louis Stevenson
A Is for Annabelle
By Tasha Tudor
Amelia Bedelia
By Peggy Parish
Are You My Mother? (Beginner Books)
By P.D. Eastman
Audrey Bunny
By Angie Smith
Butterfly (Watch Me Grow)
By DK Publishing
Charlotte’s Web
By E. B. White
Cowboy Small
By Lois Lenski
Curious George Books
By H. A. Rey
Hermie, a Common Caterpillar (Max Lucado’s Hermie & Friends)
By Max Lucado
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
By Eric Carle
John Philip Duck
By Patricia Polacco
Madeline Series
By Ludwig Bemelman
Make Way for Ducklings (Viking Kestrel picture books)
By Robert McCloskey
The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook
By Joyce Lankester Brisley
Miss Fannie’s Hat
By Jan Karon
Mr. Marble’s Moose
By D. J. May
My ABC Bible Verses: Hiding God’s Word in Little Hearts
By Susan Hunt
One Smile
By Cindy McKinley
Pepito the Brave
By Scott Beck
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Peter Rabbit Naturally Better)
By Beatrix Potter
Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving
By Eric Metaxas
Stuart Little
By E. B. White
The Berenstain Bears: God Loves You! (Berenstain Bears/Living Lights)
By Mike Berenstain
The Boxcar Children Books 1-4
By Gertrude Chandler Warner
The Evergreen Wood
By Alan Perry
Pooh’s Library: Winnie-The-Pooh, The House At Pooh Corner, When We Were Very Young, Now We Are Six (Pooh Original Edition)
By A. A. Milne
The Little Engine That Could mini
By Watty Piper
The Little Fir Tree
By Margaret Wise Brown
The Little House 70th Anniversary Edition with CD
By Virginia Lee Burton
The Mitten
By Jan Brett
The Real Mother Goose
By Blanche Fisher Wright
The Star-Spangled Banner
By Peter Spier
The Tale of Three Trees: A Traditional Folktale
By Angela Elwell Hunt
The Three Questions [Based on a story by Leo Tolstoy]
By Jon J. Muth
Thunder Cake
By Patricia Polacco
The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus
By Joel Chandler Harris
Violet Comes to Stay (Mitford for Children, Book 1)
By Jan Karon
Violet Goes to the Country (Mitford for Children, Book 2)
By Jan Karon
The Children’s Book of Virtues
By William J. Bennett
CDs FOR CHILDREN
By Diana Beach Batarsh
Hide ’em in Your Heart: Volume 2
By Steve Green
By Mike Gleason, Randy Bugg and Judy Rogers